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[4 June 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.

[4 June 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.

Thursday.
You are too perfect, too overcomingly good & tender-dearest you are, & I have no words with which to answer you. There is little wonder indeed that I, being used so long to the dark, should stumble & mistake, & see men like trees walking-& yet I must tell you that I did not mistake to the extent you have set down for me .. & that never was I so dull, so idiotic & ungrateful, as to fancy you into one ‘waiting to let me down gently with cowardly excuses’- Since I first looked you in the face, & before that day, I have been incapable of defiling the idea of you with such an unworthy imputation. And surely what I did fancy, was consistent with the fullest faith in you & in the completest verity of your affection for myself. You

Thursday.
You are too perfect, too overcomingly good & tender-dearest you are, & I have no words with which to answer you. There is little wonder indeed that I, being used so long to the dark, should stumble & mistake, & see men like trees walking-& yet I must tell you that I did not mistake to the extent you have set down for me .. & that never was I so dull, so idiotic & ungrateful, as to fancy you into one ‘waiting to let me down gently with cowardly excuses’- Since I first looked you in the face, & before that day, I have been incapable of defiling the idea of you with such an unworthy imputation. And surely what I did fancy, was consistent with the fullest faith in you & in the completest verity of your affection for myself. You